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It really does amaze me how this sort of thing get's trotted out again, and again, and again (and I'm not trying to have a go at you, Woody).

People seem completely oblivious to the same old racist tropes, imagery and mantras being applied to the new group that we are all supposed to be fearful of as a 'threat to our way of life'. Echoes of Enoch Powell, no?

"In this country in 15 or 20 years' time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man."

Except now we're not supposed to be fearful of black people - it's shifted onto Muslim's and has become (along with hatred of Travellers and the Roma) the last acceptable form of racism. All the same language that was used against black immigrants and before that against European Jewish population have been transferred onto Muslims.

The parallels with the treatment of, and attitudes towards, Jews in the 18th/19th/20th is really amazingly striking. They're supposedly hell-bent on domination of the entire world and the complete subversion of Western liberal values through engaging in secretive and seditious acts, a value system that is supposedly diametrically opposed and incompatible with our own, refusal to integrate into an (extremely unwelcoming) populace. So to a large extent you can argue that the 'return' of the Jewish diaspora to the Holy Land left a vacuum which needed to be filled; first by Carribean immigrants (and also Bolshevism) and more recently by Arab and Muslim immigrants.

There's also the same 'Clash of Civilisation' racist rhetoric that comes up again and again, in that we're meant to see Islam as a homogenous, united block juxtaposed to 'our values' which is both a racist (Orientalist) idea in itself and used as justification for holding racist Islamophobic views.

And no-one group has been more complicit in this than wet, middle-class liberals.
I'm not saying what I watched was correctly or even remotely accurate and do believe that it was created for propoganda. However, it is logical that it could occur.

The specific one I watched stated that there were x million muslims in Germany around the time of the war which has seen the muslim population grow. I believe that part was accurate.